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The United States Supreme Court had a debate about distinguishing personal and official social media accounts and whether the First Amendment applies to them. They discussed whether government officials can block users on their official accounts. The case of Donald Trump's Twitter account was mentioned as an example. There was also a case involving school board officials who blocked parents from their campaign social media accounts, leading to a judge ruling in favor of the parents. The debate continues, and there is still uncertainty about the distinction between personal and official accounts. The suggestion was made to clearly indicate an account's official status. On October 24, there was a debate in the United States Supreme Court to define the line between personal use social media account and official use social media account, and if the First Amendment would apply to them. One side argued about when does the Constitution limit the official account from blocking other users from that same account, and if that would reflect back on them. The same question used former President Donald Trump's Twitter account as an example because he has set it as a government official page, which makes his page fit under the cover of the First Amendment. One argued that if he gives speeches at his Mar-a-Lago, would that count under government use or personal use? During that same Tuesday debate, one of the cases about two school board officials from Poway Unified School District in California, they create a Facebook page and a Twitter account for the campaign and invite everyone to board meetings, comment about board activities, and safety issues in the district. There are two parents who frequently post critical comments about the official, and they got blocked from the two accounts. They took that matter to court, and a judge favored them. Another judge at the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco wrote, when a state actor enters the virtual world and invokes their government status to create a forum, the First Amendment enters with them. Since this is a small debate, there is still an unclear line between the two, which has to wait until next year for a bigger debate about that. I found this article on the New York Times page. In my opinion, if you want people to know if your official account is real, add, quote, official account, unquote, next to your name, or a blue checkmark for X, aka Twitter.